My Immortal 4/?

[syikana]

My Immortal

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or Doctor Who.

Summery: Ianto Jones isn’t an ordinary Human. He needs answers. Only the right kind of Doctor can give him those answers.

Authors Notes: This chapter will have Jack/John, John/Ianto. Still primary Jack/Ianto (with one-sided Tosh/Ianto, one-sided Gwen/Jack and Andy/Tosh)

Chapter Four

Ianto watched as everyone moved around him. It was clear to him that Jack was training Gwen to be a second although that did make him wonder how long he’d been gone. He knew The Doctor and Martha showed up just after the election which placed it as at least three months since he’d been gone. He wondered how long Jack had been gone for.

“Are you sure no more like him came through?” Jack’s voice broke through his thoughts, causing him to want to smile in relief. It was Tosh’s voice however that made him actually smile in relief. They were there, they where all right. Thankfully nobody noticed.

“Cross referencing with the rift activity monitor, it doesn’t look like it though”

“Car’s been impounded, Jack. I’ll contact Andy and get it back to the owner in the morning” Tosh reported.

“How are you doing, Owen? Did you find that report in the archives okay?”

“Bio-profile is on screen now. Nothing in his system likely to contaminate the city- the archives don’t say anything either.”

“Great, can you deal with the body when it’s done?”

“Got it.”

“Got pretty organized without me.” Ianto couldn’t help but comment. Hoping that his archives where still standing after Owen had been through them.

“Well, we had to.” Jack said.

“Anyone want a coffee then?” Ianto questioned, unable to tell if Jack was angry at him. It was however, Tosh that surprised him by pushing him heavily back causing him to wince as he hit a door frame.

“You left us, Ianto.” He sighed.

“I know, I’m sorry.”

“We knew nothing!” Gwen spoke up.
“Where were you?” Tosh asked. He wasn’t sure what Jack had told them.

“I found my Doctor.” He finally admitted.

“Did he fix you?” Jack asked with a soft look on his eyes. That was when Ianto had realised that Jack had heard everything between him and the Doctor.

“What’s there to fix?” He questioned with a cheaky smile, “you don’t mess with this level of perfection.”

“Are you going back to him?” Jack questioned.

“I came back for you.”Ianto then realised that he was having a very private conversation in a very public matter, he then made sure he looked at all the team, “all of you.”

~*^*~

“Woah, that never beeps” He remarked once Jack’s watch started going off, while they were inspecting an rift alert.


“That’s what I was thinking,” Jack said sharing a grim smile with him. Suddenly Ianto couldn’t help but stare at the image in front of him. Still alive he was still as annoying as ever and it seemed like Jack knew him. Typical

“I can’t believe I got the answer machine! What can you be doing that’s more important than me? Or who? Anyway you’ve probably traced the energy shift found the body. All me, sorry about the mess, bill me for the clean-up. Reunion time. Drinks! Retro-lock the transmission coordinates and that’s where I am.” Ianto knew almost instantly where he was. He knew the bar well and hoped that the bar would still be standing after he’d gotten through with him. Although the message was still going he headed over to the SVU and started to get in to the drivers seat and driving off before Jack could explain to the others. He knew he’d have to explain himself but he’d do that after. He’d also have to figure out how Jack actually knew him.

Arriving at the bar he got out of the SVU and took a deep breath when he reached the door. Opening it reminded him of a western. Ianto was unsure as to how to take him. They stared at each other for a few moments, he was slightly unsure as to what he was going to do. They stared at each other for a few moments and finally he kissed him. Passionately. Breaking apart Ianto didn’t even move when he slugged him. He slugged him back without so much of breaking a sweat. A part of him missed this.

“You know you’re not the person I was expecting eye-candy.”

“How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?” He snapped.

“I take it you two know each other then.” Jack’s voice spoke up with a mixture of confusion and amusement. The two men swirled around to see Jack standing at the door.

“You’ve put on weight.” Ianto nearly snorted at Jack’s look.
“You’ve lost some hair”

“What are you wearing?”

“Captain Jack Harkness. Note the stripes.”

“Captain John Hart, note the sarcasm”

“Hey, I worked my way up the ranks!”

“I’m sure the ranks where grateful” Ianto couldn’t help but comment, deciding to remind the two that he was in fact there. Ianto watched as John looked between Jack and himself.

“God, I could do with a drink.” Ianto nearly snorted, Jack however spoke before he could comment.

“I thought you’d never ask.” They made their way to the bar Ianto and Jack both watching John as he guzzled the bottle down.

“So...” Ianto started, “how was rehab?”

“Rehabs” John corrected, “plural.” For some reason Ianto wasn’t even surprised at that.

“Drink, sex, drugs and...” Jack counted off somewhat knowenly

“Murder” Jack laughed and Ianto couldn’t help but feel a little twinge of something. He missed hearing Jack laugh.

“You went to murder rehab?”

“I know, ridiculous. The odd kill, who does it hurt?”

“You clean now?” Ianto questioned before Jack could. John raised his eyebrow at him and then at the bottle he’d just drunk.

“Yeah, eye candy. Living like a priest.”

“Don’t call me that.” Ianto snapped

“How’s the time agency?” Jack intervined.

“You didn’t hear?” At Jack’s blank look Ianto knew that he hadn’t, “It’s shut down.”

“Wow.”

“It’s good to see you, Jack. It never was the same without you” Ianto pushed down the twinge of jealousy that he felt when Jack and John lent forward and he tried to ignore the sigh of relief when Jack stopped.

“You need to go.” Jack said firmly causing both to look at him in surprise. Despite everything... John was a part of his past. “I don’t want you in my territory.”

“Time was, you couldn’t get enough of me on your territory.” John moved quicker than Ianto expected to and in a second he’d shot at the glass window. To his left he could see that Jack looked surprised as well, “All right everyone out.”

For a second Ianto felt a mild panic. Logically he knew Tosh, Owen and Gwen would have followed him but he was hoping that John hadn’t injured any of them. He’d only just gotten them back. Then Gwen’s voice broke through his thoughts.

“Everything all right Jack?” Shouldn’t he be asking her that? A part of his mind asked him.

“It’s okay, okay, okay!” Ianto snorted. It was John, it never was okay. Although it did sound a bit like Jack was trying to convince himself of this.

“You’ve got a team!” Ianto nearly smiled. It was the amused smile on John’s face that had made him fall for him for the first time, “how sweet. Pretty little team- no blonde though. Every good team needs a blonde”

“God. He’s worse than Jack.” Owen complained making Ianto smile fondly without realising it.

“Oh! Do you have a team name? I love team names.”

“Torchwood” Jack said flatly.

“Oh! Not Excalibur? Blizzard? Bikini Cops? No? Torchwood? Oh dear.” At that last bit Ianto raised an eyebrow. It seemed as John knew about Torchwood he wondered what they had to say about him.

“Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato meet...”

“Captain John Hart.”

“And I take it you all ready know Ianto.”

“We go back.” Ianto said flatly.

“Excuse me, we go more than back. We were partners.”

“In what way?” Tosh questioned and Ianto shot her a look of surprise was there a hint of jealously there? He thought that she liked Owen.

“In every way love, and then some.”

“It was two weeks” Ianto stated.

“Except that two weeks was trapped in a time loop, so we were stuck together for five years.” John paused and looked thoughtful, “It was like having a wife.”
“Excuse me you where the wife.” Ianto snapped.

“You, were the wife.”

“No, you were the wife.” Ianto stared John down. This was what he’d missed from the man.

“Oh, but I was a good wife.”

“I bet you where.” Ianto shot a quick surprised look at Tosh- he wasn’t the only one, “what? Don’t pretend you haven’t noticed he’s cute.” Well Ianto couldn’t deny that.

“They’re just shy.”

“What are you doing here?” Jack questioned. Ianto watched John tense for a moment.

“I was wondering when you’d get to that.” John fiddled with a couple of buttons of his wrist strap.

“That’s the same as yours,” Tosh commented.

“A little smaller.” Ianto smiled at Jack’s retort as it was said on instinct while Jack scoffed.

“But it lasts much longer.” This time it was Ianto who scoffed.

“Does lasting longer count as burning out in 1869?” Ianto saw Jack shoot him a look as he realised that John was the one that had left him behind. He nodded briefly.

“One time and I never hear the end of it. See what I mean about the wife?” John said with a brief roll of his eyes, “anyway, get two time agents in the same room and it’s all about the wrist strap.

“Sorry... what’s a time agent?” Ianto looked over at Owen who looked about as lost as Tosh and Gwen.

“What, he hasn’t told you about his past?” John asked sounding surprised

“No, he didn’t.” Gwen spoke up, “neither of them have.” John studied them for a few moments and then nodded. Ianto was almost glad when John decided to pull a Jack and keep them at bay.

“Anyway, I’m working with this woman. Beautiful, Clever, Sexy, yada, yada, yada- and we both get shot and she’s dying. She begs me – tells me about these radiation cluster bombs that she’s been working on.”

“I don’t like the sound of this.” Owen proclaimed. Ianto didn’t either. John’s stories where never fully straight up.

“Three canisters. Contents beyond toxic, swallowed up in the rift storm.”

“And they ended up here.” Tosh said flatly.

“Bingo. That’s the downside of your city being built on a rift in space and time. Now, left to their own devices, the radiation will break down the canisters and then infect your people and planet. They need to be neutralized” Ianto gave him a suspicious look but before he could say anything Jack asked him the question on his mind.


“What do you get out of this?”

“Dying woman’s last wish.” Ianto was unconvinced and it looked like Jack was as well, “now there’s only one problem. I don’t know where they are. Hoping some local knowledge might help.

“When we get back to the Hub, I can run a citywide scan on radiation surges and cross-references that with the rift activity during that time span.” Tosh spoke up.

“What are you? The brains and the beauty?” Ianto had to stop himself from moving closer to Tosh. He knew fully well that that could take care of herself it was more of the protectiveness that he felt with Rose. Older brother syndrome he put it down to.

“We do this, you get out of here when it’s finished. Right away.” Jack snapped and Ianto vaguely wondered if Jack felt the same.

“Does this mean I get to see your house?” Ianto’s smile fell. This was not going to be good. He just wanted things to get back to normal- well as normal as things could ever be with Torchwood.

~*^*~

“He’s a compulsive liar!” Tosh proclaimed in the archives while Ianto tried to find any information that they might have on the canisters while Tosh assisted. “why is he in the hub?”

“Why aren’t you asking Jack, Tosh?” Ianto questioned.

“Because, Gwen is.” Ianto mentally rolled his eyes. Of course she was, “why is he here Ianto?”

“Jack decided that one, Tosh not me. Personally he’s a part of my past. One that I want left behind.”

“Here we go again. You know everything about me, Ianto. Why I was hired at Torchwood, my past. Why do you keep shutting me out?”

“Tosh, here and now- that’s what’s important. You don’t need to know what I’ve done in my past. It’s the present that we need to live in.”

“Then, why did you dessert us?” Ianto froze. He knew he owed an explanation but he needed to tell Jack first. That was what he needed to do, “where did you go, Yan?”

“I... I died so many times, Tosh. I’ve been dragged back to life- that’s like being hauled over by broken glass by the way. I... I saw the end of the world” He moved slightly closer to her not entirely sure what he was doing.

“How-“ Tosh started then cursed in Japanese when her phone started to ring, “Moshi, Moshi? Andy? Yes it looks like it’s going to be a late one. I’ll see you tomorrow okay? Love you too” Ianto’s eyebrow rose slightly as Tosh hung up the phone.

“What’s this? you and Andy?”

“Well...” She paused looking at him for a moment and then gave a sigh, “Nobody else will have me.” Ianto bit his lip. When had Tosh developed a crush on him? He wondered briefly to himself. He’d always thought she’d had one on Owen.

“Good for you,” He kissed her on the check and gave her a quick hug.

“Wait, if Gwen’s talking to Jack... we’ve left Owen alone with John.” He shot her a look and they both bolted out of the archives to ‘rescue’ Owen.

~*^*~

“Loving that officey feeling.” Ianto had to bite back a smile. He knew the question was coming, “I always get excited in these places. To me they’re, exotic. Office romances, photocopying your butt. Well... maybe not your butt, although while we’re here....” About time to get back to business Ianto realised.

“The rift was active at these coordinates approximately two hundred feet above ground. That means this floor or the roof.” He interrupted Jack, who looked at him.

“How are you, Ianto?”

“All the better for being back, Sir.” They looked at each other.

“What happened, Ianto? One minute I was with The Doctor and Martha in a Torchwood safe house. The next thing I was alone.” Ianto took a deep breath. This was it.

“The year that never was.”

“Pardon?”

“Saxon... turned the Tardis into a paradox machine. The Doctor reversed it.” Ianto explained he bit his lip, “was the team in the Himalaya’s when you got back to Cardiff?”

“They’d spent two days there... wait- how did you know that?”

“Saxon sent them there as a distraction.” Ianto explained.

“Why don’t I remember any of this?”

“You weren’t at the eye of the storm Jack.” I wish I wasn’t Ianto added in his mind, “can I explain it after John’s gone?”

“All right.” Jack studied him, “Ianto... when this is all over and done with... maybe we could have dinner? A movie?” Ianto bit his lip almost trying to keep the smile off his face.

“I’d thought you’d never ask.” He said dryly, “now why don’t I take the roof and you take the office? I know you’re good with roofs but... just need to appreciate the view while I’m here”

“The views fine as far as I can see.” Jack remarked, Ianto just turned and started to walk away, “Ianto?” He turned, “Was that a yes?”

“Yes” He said simply allowing a smile to come on his face as he walked away.

~*^*~

Ianto found the canister and bent down to pick it up intending to go back down

“Rear of the year. 1987, still looking good” John’s voice surprised him, causing Ianto to immediately go on guard. His phone started to ring and Ianto saw John’s smirk as he started to pick it up.

“Cute. They’re trying to warn you about me. Who is it? Jack? Or the pretty Japanese girl?” Before Ianto could react John had managed to grab the phone away from him, “Canister.”

“If you’ve harmed them in anyway...” Ianto started.

“Relax eye-candy.” Ianto bit back the retort that was on his lips, “you know, they’re pretty but they’re stupid. Jack used to have decent taste.” Ianto raised an eyebrow.

“Doesn’t look like it from here.”

“Just give it to me.”

“Radiation cluster bombs? Really?” Ianto questioned.

“let’s not get hung up on details. How did you survive?” I didn’t Ianto thought to himself.

“I have my ways. Little embarrassing that you needed help to find them.”

“Little humiliating that Jack and you fell for the scam.” John retorted, “Your dolly birds did all the legwork.”

“Isn’t that what you wanted?”

“What I want is for you to come to your senses. Jack doesn’t belong here.”

“And he belongs with you?”

“For some reason you’ve got a hold on him. He’s staying on one measly planet. In one century. He could live like a king. He used to live like a king. He should be up there among the stars claiming them for his own. Just like before.”

“And this has to do with me why?” Ianto questioned, “Jack is old enough to make his own decisions, John.”

“He’s blinded. Tell him you don’t need him anymore.”

“We’re not even together.” Ianto retorted, “Tell him yourself, but you really need to master that temptation spiel first.”

“It’s not a spiel. It’s a fact.”

“Grow a spine and move on, John. He’s got a new life and you’re still churning out the same lines you tried sell me. It’s not going to work, you’re looking a little older and what’s that? A few wrinkles?” Ianto was aware that he was dangerously close to the edge, in more ways than one.

“Laugh lines.”

“Hell of a good joke then.”

“It’s you I’m laughing at, canister.” Ianto looked briefly at the canister in his hand and then he dropped it casually from the roof.

“Woops.” He deadpanned, he knew what was coming and he was silently grateful that John didn’t know about his little ability as he felt John push him from the building.

“Woops.”

“AHHH” he faked looking surprised and then stopped silently falling the rest of the way before it all went dark.

~*^*~

Ianto made it back to the hub just as the others did, he gave them a quick once over.

“Everyone okay?” Jack gave a nod.

“Owen got shot again but yeah everyone’s fine. You?”

“Thrown off a building, nothing new, he seriously needs to get a new act. We have the element of surprise though.”

“He doesn’t know you can’t die?” Ianto shook his head, “all right, come in last.”

“Yes, sir.” The mask was back up. This was taking his toll on him. He just wanted sit down and not get killed for a few years. He watched as Jack and Gwen went first.

“Pretty and resistant. Is that even fair?”

“Maybe you didn’t realise. You can beat, shoot, threaten and even poison us and we’ll always come back.” Gwen stated and Ianto couldn’t help but feel proud of her.

“Stronger every time.” Jack finished with a slight smirk. Ianto watched from the background as a smile grazed John’s face. This will be it he realised.

“Well I think you should know your tea-boy is splayed out on the ...” Ianto moved into vision with a smirk on his own face as he saw the look of surprise on John’s face, “pavement... that’s a neat trick. Seriously you could earn a fortune in the Vegas galaxies with an act like that. Go on- how does it work?”

“I can’t die.” Ianto said flatly.

“Go on, no really.”

“No, but really you can’t kill me. No matter how many times you try. I can’t die. Ever.” He stepped into the bay between Jack and Gwen.


~*^*~

“What the hell?” Owen remarked after all the excitement, Ianto was trying to get his head straight.

“Jack? What’s going on why has it gone dark?” Gwen questioned.

“The rifts reverted back to the moment he came through. We’ve gone back to the beginning of the night.” Ianto realised explaining out loud before Jack could.

“Like, you were never here” Gwen said looking over at John.

“Now we’ve got to avoid ourselves.” Jack stated throwing his hands up slightly frustrated, “Great.”

“What did you give him Owen?”

“Torchwood DNA.”

“What?” Tosh asked sounding slightly confused for a moment.

“DNA samples from the five of us. Fused and injected into his heart. Temporary corrupted his DNA coding- confused the disk.”

“You mean there’s a bit of you inside of me? Sweet Goodness.”

“Thank you, Owen.” Gwen said with a small smile.

“I want you gone.” Jack said firmly to John. Gwen however held up her handcuffed wrist.

“Well, we’ve got to get these off him first.”

“Actually...” John reached into his mouth and pulled out a key, “old trick I learnt.” Gwen looked furious.

“You had that all along?”

“You were my passport to survival. No hard feelings- well not in that sense.” All the men winced when Gwen slugged John on the face and then kicked him in the balls.

“Remind me never to get you mad.” Ianto deadpanned and gave Gwen a small smile.

“You know... I could always stay and help out.” John suggested.

“I want you gone.” Jack spat, “you endangered my team. You killed one of my men.”

“Eye-candy can’t die.”

“Yeah, but you didn’t know that John. I want you gone and don’t come back.” John sighed.

“Fine.” Ianto’s guard was immediately up. John never gave up that easily. He realised that he was right when John pressed a couple of buttons, “Oh and Jack? I knew I forgot to mention something: I found Grey.”

To Be Continued

 

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[sammydragoncat]

Great update

[syikana]

Thank you :-) Chapter Five's up now :-)

[seabiscuit]

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[syikana]

Thank you :-) Chapter Five's up now :-)

[reddevilpoes]

Wonderful update!

[syikana]

Thank you :-) Chapter Five's up now :-)